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tumb

tumb verb: to tumble; jump; dance.

Verb

tumb (third-person singular simple present tumbs, present participle tumbing, simple past and past participle tumbed)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To tumble; jump; dance.

Forms of tumb

third-person singular presenttumbs
present participletumbing
past participletumbed
pasttumbed

Origin of tumb

From Middle English tumben, tomben, from Old English tumbian (“to tumble, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn round”). Cognate with Middle High German tumen (“to turn round”), Icelandic tumba (“to tumble”). See tumble.

Words that rhyme with tumb

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Questions about tumb

What does tumb mean?
Tumb means to tumble; jump; dance.
What part of speech is tumb?
Tumb is a verb.
What is the past tense of tumb?
The past tense of tumb is tumbed.

Words near tumb in the dictionary

  1. tumasha
  2. tumashas
  3. tumatakuru
  4. tumatukuru
  5. Tumauini
  6. tumb
  7. tumbaga
  8. Tumbaga 1
  9. Tumbaga 2
  10. tumbak
  11. tumbaks

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